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Montana State Sen. Diane Sands (D) - Missoula
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State Health Department Crafts New Rules For Private Therapeutic Homes

Montana Health officials Friday released new rules for private therapeutic homes that previously fell under the authority of a mostly self-regulated board. This comes a month after the state health department removed two-dozen children from one of those facilities due to allegations of abuse.

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Timeline for HELP Program/Medicaid Expansion Waiver
Montana DPHHS

Public Comment On Medicaid Expansion Community Service Requirements Closes

U.S. Attorney's Office Won't Seek Federal Charges For Henny Scott's Death

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Ah, the apricot. This overlooked fruit, long claimed by China, India and Armenia, probably made its way to Europeans via the Silk Road. Aromatic, pulpy and not too sweet - apricots have 7 g. of sugar and 2 g. of fiber per 100 g. of fruit -  it's great fresh or dried and makes wonderful jams, tarts, cakes, wine, leather - and chutney.

State Health Department Crafts New Rules For Private Therapeutic Homes

By • Aug 23, 2019
Montana State Sen. Diane Sands (D) - Missoula
Mike Albans / Montana Public Radio

Montana Health officials Friday released new rules for private therapeutic homes that previously fell under the authority of a mostly self-regulated board. This comes a month after the state health department removed two-dozen children from one of those facilities due to allegations of abuse.

Public Comment On Medicaid Expansion Community Service Requirements Closes

By • Aug 23, 2019
Timeline for HELP Program/Medicaid Expansion Waiver
Montana DPHHS

Friday was the deadline for public input on the Montana health department’s draft proposal to add work and community service requirements to the state’s health coverage program for low income adults.

At the end of the month, Montana’s Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) plans to send the federal government the new outline of the state’s Medicaid expansion program, which covers around 90,000 people.

U.S. Attorney's Office Won't Seek Federal Charges For Henny Scott's Death

By editor • Aug 23, 2019

The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Thursday it won’t pursue federal charges in the death of a young girl whose body was found near Lame Deer on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation late last year. The Office determined it could not prove foul play.

Musselshell County Investigating Four Dead Elk

By • Aug 23, 2019

A fourth dead elk has been found in the southwest part of Musselshell County.

Record Number Of People Enter American Prairie Reserve's Bison Harvest Drawing

By • Aug 23, 2019

A record number of people entered a drawing to harvest a bison from a private herd in northeastern Montana this year.

Wyoming Wants To Use Medicaid To Reduce Air Ambulance Bills For All Patients

By Markian Hawryluk • Aug 23, 2019

Wyoming, which is among the reddest of Republican states and a bastion of free enterprise, thinks it may have found a way to end crippling air ambulance bills that sometimes top $100,000 per flight.

The state's unexpected solution: Undercut the free market, by using Medicaid to treat air ambulances like a public utility.

Phone Companies Ink Deal With All 50 States And D.C. To Combat Robocalls

By Brakkton Booker • Aug 22, 2019

AT&T, Sprint and Verizon and nine other telecommunications companies teamed up with attorneys general of all 50 states plus the District of Columbia to announce a new pact to eradicate a common scourge in America: illegal robocalls.

Tester Invites Trump To Family Farm After President's Wheat Comment

By • Aug 22, 2019

Montana Senator Jon Tester sent an invitation Tuesday to President Donald Trump to meet wheat producers in Big Sandy. It comes in response to concerns over the President’s recent comments mocking the role of wheat in trade deals with Japan.

Two Mountain Lions Killed Near Columbia Falls Park

By • Aug 22, 2019
A mountain lion in Glacier National Park.
National Park Service (PD)

Two young mountain lions were killed near a Columbia Falls park over the weekend. One was shot and killed by a local homeowner Saturday and the other was killed by police.

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